The Forrest City times., 1887-11-05
GENERAL NEWS.

John Barrett, the le-year-old youth who was shot by the Italian Lungo- bardi, while defending his sisters, died, Friday ,morning in New York hospital. * Serious trouble is spprehended be- tween the two factions in the Cherokee Nation, Indian territory.
 Two negroes who attempted to crim- inally assault two young white girls in Louisiana, were taken from Jail and lynched Monday. 1tl fJ
 Knights of Labor at Chicago who support the Powderly admlnistrsUon assert that the accession movement just inaugarsted is in the interest ot anarchy.
 At Jalappa a suburb Of Pcttsviils, Pa. Wednesday morning, Henry Shaa- ner, aged "A, Killed his wife, 5s years of age. and then shot himself dead. The couple were married year ago.
 William Walker, importer of dress trimmings at New fork, failed wednes- day for Sl25,0oo, due principally to European firms
 The twelfth anniversary of the Foreign Missionary Society of the So- ciety of Christ was observed at In- dianapolis, Ind. Tho number of com municants received by the missions during the year was SOP; receipts, $47,795.
 In Tunnel Hill borough, near Gall litzin, Pa, Tuesday afternoon, Thom as Stanley, ST.. while intoxicated, drove his wife from the house, then pursued her and shot her dead. The murderer was imprisoned at Ebensburg.
 Five thousand shoemakers abandoned their benches at Philadelphia wednes- day, and the proprietors Of twenty four factories paid off their hands, the employers turning the strike into g lockout.
 Robert Garrett started for Mexico on an extended visit Saturday.
 The Presby terian synod of Iowa, at Keokuk continued it's sessions,
 The reported lynching of Amer Green at Delphi, Ind, is fully con- firmed.
 San Francisco is making an effort to secure the national Democratic con. vention next year. There have been 150 cases of yellow fever at Tampa, Fla, up to date, with twenty-five deaths. The Georgia legislature adjourned I Thursday night. None of the public measures discussed were adopted. Work on the Santa Fe road at Fort Scott, Kas., began Tuesday. John Taylor, president of the Ma tlonal Temperance League of Great l Britain, was given a reception Friday afternoon at New York by the national temperance society. John Dickerson, weil-known cap | italist of Los Angeles, Cal, was killed in Mexico by bandits.
 Charles Delaney, who was shot at from an alleged disreputable house in Brazil, Ind, died Friday. Ills assail. ant, Sam Graham, has fled the town, and the police are unable to find any trace of him.
 The Iowa Presbyterian synod at Keokuk, To-, adjourned sine die Mon- day.
 | a Tad the great lakes and the Atlantic coast.
 Chairman Jones has issued call for the meeting of the national Republi- can executive committee. Two men have been arrested at Gainesville, Tex, charged with train robbery. One is alleged to have made full confession.
 Hopes are entained of saving the life of little Herman Miller, whose parents and brothers and sisters peri.hed in the kouts disaster.
 In the Baldwin Hotel at San Fran. cisco, Thursday night, Mrs. Clara Belle McDonald fired three shots at hei iather-in-law Richard II. Mcdonald 1 president of the Pacific bank, because he refused to give her Sl00,0O0 as { compromise in divorce suit begun by her husband, McDonald's son. The bullets went wide of their mark, and the woman was arrested.
 Petroleum was struck at Hutchinson kan., Friday evening, at distance O S20 feet. Only week or two ago large deposits of salt were discovered in tha locality.
 The Methodist Central mission, 1T session at London, takes strong ground against some of Spurgeon's the ologics opinions